1. [n]  a score in basketball made by throwing the ball through the hoop
2. [n]  a container that is usually woven and has handles
3. [n]  horizontal hoop with a net through which players try to throw the basketball
4. [n]  the quantity contained in a basket

1. \Bas"ket\, n. [Of unknown origin. The modern Celtic words
   seem to be from the English.]
   1. A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes,
      splints, or other flexible material, interwoven. ``Rude
      baskets . . . woven of the flexile willow.'' --Dyer.
   
   2. The contents of a basket; as much as a basket contains;
      as, a basket of peaches.
   
   3. (Arch.) The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.
      [Improperly so used.] --Gwilt.
   
   4. The two back seats facing one another on the outside of a
      stagecoach. [Eng.] --Goldsmith.
   
   {Basket fish} (Zo["o]l.), an ophiuran of the genus
      {Astrophyton}, having the arms much branched. See
      {Astrophyton}.
   
   {Basket hilt}, a hilt with a covering wrought like basketwork
      to protect the hand. --Hudibras. Hence,
   
   {Baskethilted}, a.
   
   {Basket work}, work consisting of plaited osiers or twigs.
   
   {Basket worm} (Zo["o]l.), a lepidopterous insect of the genus
      {Thyridopteryx} and allied genera, esp. {T.
      ephemer[ae]formis}. The larva makes and carries about a
      bag or basket-like case of silk and twigs, which it
      afterwards hangs up to shelter the pupa and wingless adult
      females.
   
   

2. \Bas"ket\, v. t.
   To put into a basket. [R.]
   
   

There are five different Hebrew words so rendered in the Authorized Version: (1.) A basket (Heb. sal, a twig or osier) for holding bread (Gen. 40:16; Ex. 29:3, 23; Lev. 8:2, 26, 31; Num. 6:15, 17, 19). Sometimes baskets were made of twigs peeled; their manufacture was a recognized trade among the Hebrews.

(2.) That used (Heb. salsilloth') in gathering grapes (Jer. 6:9).

(3.) That in which the first fruits of the harvest were presented, Heb. tene, (Deut. 26:2, 4). It was also used for household purposes. In form it tapered downwards like that called _corbis_ by the Romans.

(4.) A basket (Heb. kelub) having a lid, resembling a bird-cage. It was made of leaves or rushes. The name is also applied to fruit-baskets (Amos 8:1, 2).

(5.) A basket (Heb. dud) for carrying figs (Jer. 24:2), also clay to the brick-yard (R.V., Ps. 81:6), and bulky articles (2 Kings 10:7). This word is also rendered in the Authorized Version "kettle" (1 Sam. 2:14), "caldron" (2 Chr. 35:13), "seething-pot" (Job 41:20).

In the New Testament mention is made of the basket (Gr. kophinos, small "wicker-basket") for the "fragments" in the miracle recorded Mark 6:43, and in that recorded Matt. 15:37 (Gr. spuris, large "rope-basket"); also of the basket in which Paul escaped (Acts 9:25, Gr. spuris; 2 Cor. 11: 33, Gr. sargane, "basket of plaited cords").